Abstract In 1912, Max Wertheimer published his paper on phi motion, widely recognized as
the start of Gestalt psychology. Because of its continued relevance in modern psychology …

Our first review article (Wagemans et al., 2012) on the occasion of the centennial
anniversary of Gestalt psychology focused on perceptual grouping and figure–ground …

Experiences are stored in the mind as discrete mental units, or 'events,'which influence—
and are influenced by—attention, learning, and memory. In this way, the notion of an …

The goal of our study is a better understanding of the role of vertical mirror symmetry in
perceptual grouping. With a simple psychophysical task and a set of controlled stimuli, we …

What makes an object the same persisting individual over time? Philosophers and
psychologists have both grappled with this question, but from different perspectives …

A rigorous analysis of current empirical and theoretical work supporting the argument that
consciousness and attention are largely dissociated. In this book, Carlos Montemayor and …

Symmetry is an important and prominent feature of the visual world. It has been studied as a
basis for image segmentation and perceptual organization, but it also plays a role in higher …

Objects are central in visual, auditory, and tactual perception. But what counts as a
perceptual object? I address this question via a structural unity schema, which specifies how …

The human visual system reliably extracts shape information from complex natural scenes in
spite of noise and fragmentation caused by clutter and occlusions. A fast, feedforward sweep …

We have previously demonstrated that the mere organization of some elements in the visual
field into an object attracts attention automatically. Here, we explored three different aspects …